Women Rights In Islam: What does Islam say about marital affairs and women owning property?

in Shaa Allah i will start a Series about women rights in islam , islam put rights for women in all fileds , we should know all those rights and respect it , as our islam asks us.

 

What does Islam say about marital affairs and women owning property? In the area of marital affairs, Allah limited a husband to marrying the maximum of four wives, on the condition that he treats all of his wives fairly and equally according to his ability. And He obligated to the husbands to live with them in kindness, as He says in the Quran: 

"And live with them honorably."[4: 19]

 Allah made the woman the caretaker, commanding good and forbidding evil in the household of her husbandand He made her the guardian of her children in the husband's absence. The Prophet said: "A woman is the guardian of her husband's household and she will be asked (on the Day of Judgement) concerning those under her care."  (Sunan Abu Dawud #2928,Bukhari # 7138 others) As we can see, Islam has uplifted and given the woman a noble status!

Since the seventh century C.E., Islam has granted married women the independent personality which the Judaea-Christian West had deprived them of until very recently. In Islam, the bride and her family are under no obligation whatsoever to present a gift to the groom. The girlin a Muslim family is not a liability. A woman is so dignified in Islam that she does not need to present gifts in order to attract potential husbands. It is the groom who must present the bride with a marriage gift. This gift is considered her property and neither the groom nor the bride's family have any share in or control over it. In some Muslim societies today, a marriage gift of a hundred thousand dollars in diamonds is not unusual. The bride retains her marriage gifts even if she is later divorced. The husband is not allowed any share in his wife's property except what she offers him with her free consent. The Quran has stated its position on this issue quite clearly:

"And give to the women whom you marry their dowry with a good heart; but if they, of their own good pleasure, remit any part of it to you, take it, andenjoy it without fear of any harm as Allah has made it lawful." (4:4)

The wife's property and earnings are under her fullcontrol and for her use alone since her, and her children's, maintenance is her husband's responsibility. No matter how rich the wife might be, she is not obliged to act as a co-provider for the family unless she herself voluntarily chooses to do so. Spouses do inherit from one another. Moreover, a married woman in Islam retains her independent legal personality and her family name."

Muslim mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters had received inheritance rights thirteen hundred years before Europe recognized that these rights even existed. The division of inheritance is a vast subject covered in great detail in the Quran (see 4:7,11,12,176).